Playhead not moving

Once the Playhead has moved off the right side of the Timeline, only stopping playback will update the Playhead and Timeline position.

FCP has never had a Playhead/Timeline that uses live updating. Probably to conserve system resources.

You can zoom out of the Timeline and stretch the window, but that's not always pratical or useful.

To be more obtuse, you can manually scroll l/r on the timeline during playback if you want to keep the playhead in view. If you are using a mighty mouse or a logitech mouse that supports sideways scrolling, its a trivial task to keep up with the playback.

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This happens to me once in a while. The playhead will not move on the timeline in real-time as the canvas is playing, so I can't figure out which cut I'm on. But when I stop playback, the playhead then updates so I know where I stopped.

Restarting FCP or my computer usually fixes this problem. Not sure if that's exactly what you were talking about, though.

This is a bug?

Not a bug. FCP timeline never updated on the fly.

rh

try closing the audio mixing window

I just had this happen to me this morning. The playhead WILL update on the fly, but not past the end of the screen. So if you want to see the entire sequence with a scrolling playhead, just zoom out.

But I can't figure out how to get the playhead moving again. Let's try the ol' restart.